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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 20, 2015 19:31:33 GMT
I have kept most of the cards I have received since I was young. I just went through them to take them out of a tote and put them in a drawer. I found a lot of our anniversary cards we have given each other through out the years. I think I want to make a scrapbook of them and give it to husband next year on our 20th anniversary. I have some dated but not all. I want to include a wedding picture at the beginning. Maybe even one of our wedding invitations (I kept the extras)
The question is Should I do each page to go with the card it's self of should I make the papers match through out the book?
The cards are all different with different colors. I will probably make them a double layout for each card using the front on one page and the inside on the other page. There are some that are multiple pages so I would have to do them as interactive pages so you can open the card.
I want to split it up in to 2 halves. Do all the cards that he gave me and then all the cards that I gave him.
I also want to put a letter in the front of the book from me to him.
I have almost a year to do this.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2015 20:05:07 GMT
What a great idea!  I'd probably make each page/spread match the card. Maybe you can find something neutral to make the entire album cohesive... like use kraft cardstock or heart stickers, or whatever you like best. |
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 20, 2015 20:38:05 GMT
I think what I will do is get the cards sorted. Pick the papers and the embellishments. Put them in a page protector together then I can work on the pages as time goes and everything will be together. The hiding it from husband will be easy because I can work on them when he is at work and put the book down with the finished books and he will never know.
Man I should have sorted out the cards when I was going through them. Oh well. life does go on. have no place to hide them right now any way.
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 20, 2015 21:20:54 GMT
I would match the cards. I have a hard time scrapping when u attempt to do a book where all the papers are if one theme and my photos don't match that color scheme (thinking Disney puctures...I rarely end up using Disney papers).
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 20, 2015 21:28:24 GMT
I did a Valentines card book for him one year and it was easy to do a book theme. Red, white, pink, some black. hearts, love, etc.... but this is all different cards even though they are anniversary cards they are completely different colors and pictures. some funny some sentimental.
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Post by librarylady on Jul 21, 2015 2:41:16 GMT
Great idea.
I keep all those cards....went through them and found my husband had given me the same card for ?? (now I don't remember if it was an anniversary or Mother's Day). Of course I didn't remember, but had a good laugh when I put all the cards out and discovered that.
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 21, 2015 2:58:44 GMT
That is funny. I wish I would have dated them. My husband gave me 2 different cards with "sex" on the front. He has given me some really nice cards.
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Post by Peamac on Jul 21, 2015 4:02:04 GMT
I'd probably have all the paper/cardstock the same, like black,silver or gold so it unifies everything.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 10:10:59 GMT
What a great idea! I made a book for dh for the cards he gets from clients but it is not big enough and I just started stuffing the cards in pockets after I made it. I should try to make it nicer. Let us know what you end up doing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 11:31:46 GMT
Love this idea! I'm sure it will be beautiful however you do it, and your DH will be touched by the effort.
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Post by eastcoastpea on Jul 21, 2015 14:22:24 GMT
I don't have any suggestions on how you should make the scrapbook.
I do think it's a very neat idea.
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Post by ScrappyJac on Jul 21, 2015 17:51:20 GMT
I love this idea! What a fun way to gather that memorabilia together! For our christmas cards, I use this idea: Christmas Card Album Since you punch holes to add the cards, it allows you to keep the card whole but still see inside. You could even use a 6x8 album and add in page protectors between the cards. ETA: I forgot to answer your original question.  With albums like that, I either go neutral (kraft/gray/black/white) or treat each page individually. For me, it ends up being more difficult to keep a theme with colors that don't work for every page. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 18:32:00 GMT
I keep nothing...so I think this is a wonderful idea.
Is there any way you can put them in order...and then list some important "milestones" in that year of your marriage? |
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 21, 2015 18:40:06 GMT
I can put some in order because of what was said in side the card. There are dates on some but others there is not. So I will have to really work on this part of it. I thought I would add in some pictures of things that we did in the year of that anniversary and or for our anniversary... And the years we both forgot our anniversary. it was funny. we forgot 2 years in a row. The one year we forgot we planned a camping/gold mining trip over our anniversary and we woke up on our anniversary and both forgot about it. Then on the way home at the end of the trip we remember at the same time after saying that we would not forget this year.
another year we forgot and it was fathers day weekend and we were coming back from our camp in Northern California when we said we will not forget this year. and then remembered we had already forgot for 2 weeks.
there was a few years were we tested each other on who was going to forget.
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Post by birukitty on Jul 24, 2015 0:02:02 GMT
Coming to this late, but maybe instead of doing all the cards he gave you, and then all the cards you gave him-instead you could do each double page spread like this: the card he gave you on the left side of the page, and the card you gave him on the right side of the page. Do this for your first anniversary, and then for every year thereafter. You can include photos on the page and a little journaling that includes what you did that year to celebrate.
The first page of the album becomes your title page, and the last page becomes the final page-something like, "and many more..."
Just an idea. I love this idea for an album! I'm sure it'll come out just beautiful and your DH will love it. Wish I'd saved all the cards DH and I gave to each other. 2 days ago we celebrated our 20th anniversary.
Debbie in MD.
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Post by gramasue on Jul 24, 2015 0:27:10 GMT
I don't have any suggestions, as I'm sure whatever you decide will be wonderful and your DH will love it. I just wanted to say that I think it's a lovely idea! You are obviously in a great marriage. |
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 24, 2015 3:51:04 GMT
Birukitty, I love your idea. But I have one problem with that. I don't have a clue which years what cards were given but a few. I guess I could fake it. I can figure some out by what we wrote eachother but most will be unknown.
Gramasue, thank you we do have a good marriage.
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Post by birukitty on Jul 24, 2015 20:11:03 GMT
Faking is good, or you could just say not sure of what year or something like that. Put those cards in the middle maybe? I'm sure you have the first year covered, and probably this year right? So everything else falls in the middle. Maybe a cute question mark? Make it funny and I'm sure he won't mind at all.
I'm glad you like the idea, but do what you think is best. Have fun with it and I'm sure he'll absolutely love your gift!
Debbie in MD.
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jul 25, 2015 1:10:25 GMT
I'm sure as I start working on it everything will come yo me. That is partly why I want to pull stuff out to go with each card so that when I do start putting the layouts together I will have the right colored papper and all other embellishments
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With albums like that, I either go neutral (kraft/gray/black/white) or treat each page individually. For me, it ends up being more difficult to keep a theme with colors that don't work for every page.
